Off to Tampa with Jeremy Fish for the Tampa Am Contest.
hi dewds. yet another blog of me hanging out with jeremy. my camera broke a while ago so the only stuff i have lately is from his camera that i borrow when i'm with him. he was hired by nike sb to do all the artwork for the annual tampa pro/am contest. in addition, they asked him to do a mural so i went with him to drink beer and search for manatees.
our hotel was two blocks from the gallery/tattoo shop (redletter1) so we didn't really do anything until the mural was done.

painting and drinking is so much easier when you have a rad space to hang out in all night.

true story.

this place was half a block from the hotel. alaskan tacos?... who does that? i've never heard of any south american restaurants slinging clubbed baby seal sandwiches. add to that the fact that we were in florida and they were playing indian music inside and you'd think we should have run for the hills like iron maiden... but no, we went for it.

alligator tacos! damn these fuckers were good. kind of chickeny but not too gamey or chewy and they seemed to have just a touch of fishyness to them. they are amphibians, after all. just to recap... we were in florida, eating alaskan designed mexican food made from amphibian while listening to indian music.. oh, and the people that worked there were all goth dewds and chicks. get the fuck out of here. the food was good though.

signing contest posters.

the local newpaper did an article about fish and was sure to let the people know that he was on a mission to see manatees.

aw hell yeah.. manatees!

there's a viewing spot at a power plant called big bend. they pump out warm water which draws those plump, lazy, comfort loving fuckers. it's hard to tell but there were quite a fuckload of them there... at least 50.

i shot a couple of little videos of those fat fucks.

fat breath. i apologize in advance for not getting video of it but i did see at least two mantees fart. i took me a second to realize what i was seeing but right at the base of one of their tail flipper things i saw a slow steady stream of bubbles coming up from each side. at first i thought it may have been air coming up from under the manatee until i saw it a second time. each one came from the same manatee hole landia and lasted about 15 seconds. manatee farts no doubt about it. i will die a happy man (and a half).

manasneeze?

not long after we left tampa, jeff from redletter1, went swimming with some manatees at some river not too far away and sent fish these piks. fuck yeah jeff!

i guess they come right up and hang out with you. sweet damn that is so cool.

it looks like this ones ready for half a hand job (the first half). i don't think it's legal to finish off a manatee on account of them being endangered. i saw a sign at the power plant saying 'up to 5 years in jail for every 100 million sperm cells wasted'.

appearantly tampa electric has taken measures to defend itself against attacks by giving this cuddly land manatee a machine gun and a thigh high, strap on, quick draw ass plug. sweet helmet too by the way, i must have missed his run at the contest. this guy is just too squishy to intimidate anyone. i kinda wanna pet him or give him half a hand job (yeah, the first half).

fish art at the skatepark of tampa.

more. you know that turtle wants to drop in on that bitch.

fugOFF!

nick halkius, woo hoo! he's the nike sb rep for that part of our ameriland and quite a geezer.

jake donnelly is also quite rad. he's a fellow upstate new yorker and recently won slap magazines one in a million contest. he didn't do so good in the contest though. you're still one in a million to me, jake. nice one.

for some unforseen reason, this wasn't any less annoying than the loonies that hold up signs that say jesus is coming back. fugOFF all of you.

aight, i take that back. this annoying ass 'jesus is coming back' fuck nugget even had a mega phone. check out the guy in the background. he was verbalizing everything my brain was thinking while i was filming this dickbag.

show opening. i forgot her name (sara?) but she wrote the artical about fish. she was cool as fack.

me, jim, brandon and jack.

brian owns the skatepark of tampa. way to hold down the sickest contest of the year, dewd. nice one.

me and reese forbes. little know fact, i got into a fight with reese at a dive bar in orange county 10 years ago. we had a mutual friend there and had a conversation for a few minutes (despite the fact that he was wearing full army fatigues.. including the black eye make up) then went about our drinking. not too long later i saw him and when i started to say something he straight pushes me (reese is strong) into a bunch of people and drinks go flying everywhere. a bit bent about the unexpected attack and pissed at the loss of my beverage, i charged him and tackled him to the ground. a bit of a scuffle ensues and i feel someone literally pick me up by the back of my belt and carry me outside (turned out to be a friend who realized that reese could probably choke out a gorilla).
i went up and introduced myself by saying 'hey are you reese?', (yeah), 'oh, we got in a fight in orange county in 1998', he remembered right away, apologized, said he was in a weird place then and bought me a drink. i guess the moral of the story is, if you see a guy wearing full army gear at a dive bar, talk to him so he'll fight you then buy you a beer 10 years later. free beer! thanks reese. oh, and that yellow tooth of mine is from a different fight.. with a plastic cup.. at a bowling alley... i lost.

so i went to the am contest but couldn't really see much cause it was crowded. this is the only photo i took there. it's frank gerwy with his pet alligator.

i shot a photo of lightning! before...

after. woo hoo. someone told me this part of florida was called lighting alley.

must be something in the water.

check out the tight ass jeans on this broad! them shits are so tight she's got a crease on her hip. ow dude. fugoff!

i got some video of those jeans in action.

man i wish i had more free time sometimes.

we went to an after party thing for the contest at a bar that appeared to have quite a dress code (or lack of). i asked if i could take a photo of this girls tattoos and she said no so now there's a shitty photo of her crappy bat tattoos on the interweb. in her defense, i wouldn't let some creepy ass dude take photos of my 'tattoos' if i was dressed like that. then again, why would you dress like that if you gave a shit? take both of your guano filled stanky bat caves and fugoff.

We haven't been featuring many interviews as of late. Let's change that up as we check in with a few local San Francisco artists like Kevin Earl Taylor here whom we studio visited back in 2009 (PHOTOS & VIDEO). It's been awhile, Kevin...

If you like guns and boobs, head on over to the Shooting Gallery; just don't expect the work to be all cheap ploys and hot chicks. With Make Stuff by Peter Gronquist (Portland) in the main space and Morgan Slade's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow in the project space, there is plenty spectacle to be had, but if you look just beyond it, you might actually get something out of the shows.

Fifty24SF opened Street Anatomy, a new solo show by Austrian artist Nychos a week ago last Friday night. He's been steadily filling our city with murals over the last year, with one downtown on Geary St. last summer, and new ones both in the Haight and in Oakland within the last few weeks, but it was really great to see his work up close and in such detail.

Congrats on our buddies at Needles and Pens on being open and rad for 11 years now. Mission Local did this little short video featuring Breezy giving a little heads up on what Needles and Pens is all about.

Matt Wagner recently emailed over some photos from The Hellion Gallery in Tokyo, who recently put together a show with AJ Fosik (Portland) called Beast From a Foreign Land. The gallery gave twelve of Fosik's sculptures to twelve Japanese artists (including Hiro Kurata who is currently showing in our group show Salt the Skies) to paint, burn, or build upon.

Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne played host to a huge group exhibition a couple of weeks back, with "Gold Blood, Magic Weirdos" Curated by Melbourne artist Sean Morris. Gold Blood brought together 25 talented painters, illustrators and comic artists from Australia, the US, Singapore, England, France and Spain - and marked the end of the Magic Weirdos trilogy, following shows in Perth in 2012 and London in 2013.

San Francisco based Fecal Pal Jeremy Fish opened his latest solo show Hunting Trophies at LA's Mark Moore Gallery last week to massive crowds and cabin walls lined with imagery pertaining to modern conquest and obsession.

Well, John Felix Arnold III is at it again. This time, he and Carolyn LeBourgios packed an entire show into the back of a Prius and drove across the country to install it at Superchief Gallery in NYC. I met with him last week as he told me about the trip over delicious burritos at Taqueria Cancun (which is right across the street from FFDG and serves what I think is the best burrito in the city) as the self proclaimed "Only overweight artist in the game" spilled all the details.

Ever Gold opened a new solo show by NYC based Henry Gunderson a couple Saturday nights ago and it was literally packed. So packed I couldn't actually see most of the art - but a big crowd doesn't seem like a problem. I got a good laugh at what I would call the 'cock climbing wall' as it was one of the few pieces I could see over the crowd. I haven't gotten a chance to go back and check it all out again, but I'm definitely going to as the paintings that I could get a peek at were really high quality and intruiguing. You should do the same.

The paintings in the show are each influenced by a musician, ranging from Freddy Mercury, to Madonna, to A Tribe Called Quest and they are so stylistically consistent with each musician's persona that they read as a cohesive body of work with incredible variation. If you told me they were each painted by a different person, I would not hesitate to believe you and it's really great to see a solo show with so much variety. The show is fun, poppy, very well done, and absolutely worth a look and maybe even a listen.

With rising rent in SF and knowing mostly other young artists without capitol, I desired a way to live rent free, have a space to do my craft, and get to see more of the world. Inspired by the many historical artists who have longed similar longings I discovered the beauty of artist residencies. Lilo runs Adhoc Collective in Vienna which not only has a fully equipped artists creative studio, but an indoor halfpipe, and private artist quarters. It was like a modern day castle or skate cathedral. It exists in almost a utopic state, totally free to those that apply and come with a real passion for both art and skateboarding

I just wanted to share with you a piece I recently finished which took me 4 years to complete. Titled "How To Lose Yourself Completely (The September Issue)", it consists of a copy of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine (the issue they made the documentary about) with all faces masked with a sharpie, and everything else entirely whited out. 840 pages of fun. -Bryan Schnelle

Jeremy Fish opens Hunting Trophies tonight, Saturday April 5th, at the Los Angeles based Mark Moore Gallery. The show features new work from Fish inside the "hunting lodge" where viewers climb inside the head of the hunter and explore the history of all the animals he's killed.

Beautiful piece entitled "The Albatross and the Shipping Container", Ink on Paper, Mounted to Panel, 47" Diameter, by San Francisco based Martin Machado now on display at FFDG. Stop in Saturday (1-6pm) to view the group show "Salt the Skies" now running through April 19th. 2277 Mission St. at 19th.

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to quit my job, move out of my house, leave everything and travel again. So on August 21, 2013 I pushed a canoe packed full of gear into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, along with four of my best friends. Exactly 100 days later, I arrived at a marina near the Gulf of Mexico in a sailboat.

When works of art become commodities and nothing else, when every endeavor becomes “creative” and everybody “a creative,” then art sinks back to craft and artists back to artisans—a word that, in its adjectival form, at least, is newly popular again. Artisanal pickles, artisanal poems: what’s the difference, after all? So “art” itself may disappear: art as Art, that old high thing. Which—unless, like me, you think we need a vessel for our inner life—is nothing much to mourn.

Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional—the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we have known it? --continue reading

"[Satire] is important because it brings out the flaws we all have and throws them up on the screen of another person," said Turner. “How they react sort of shows how important that really is.” Later, he added, "Charlie took a hit for everybody." -read on

NYC --- A new graffiti abatement program put forth by the police commissioner has beat cops carrying cans of spray paint to fill in and cover graffiti artists work in an effort to clean up the city --> Many cops are thinking it's a waste of resources, but we're waiting to see someone make a project of it. Maybe instructions for the cops on where to fill-in?

The NYPD is arming its cops with cans of spray paint and giving them art-class-style lessons to tackle the scourge of urban graffiti, The Post has learned.

Shootings are on the rise across the city, but the directive from Police Headquarters is to hunt down street art and cover it with black, red and white spray paint, sources said... READ ON

SAN FRANCISCO --- The Headlands Center for the Arts is preparing for their largest fundraiser of the year set to go down on June 4th at SOMArts here in the city. Art auction, food, drinks, live music, etc and all for helping to support a great institution up in the Marin Headlands. ~details

ABOUT HEADLANDSHeadlands Center for the Arts provides an unparalleled environment for the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Through a range of programs for artists and the public, we offer opportunities for reflection, dialogue, and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society.

Just want to say congrats to Fecal Face's Rachel Ralph for graduating from SFAI with her masters in curatorial studies. Also want to congratulate Alex Ziv who also just got his MFA in painting. Also a high five to the talented Mario Ayala who also just graduated from SFAI as well! --- All super talented artists (thinkers), and we're excited to see what the future holds for them!

We haven't been featuring many interviews as of late. Let's change that up as we check in with a few local San Francisco artists like Kevin Earl Taylor here whom we studio visited back in 2009 (PHOTOS & VIDEO). It's been awhile, Kevin...

If you like guns and boobs, head on over to the Shooting Gallery; just don't expect the work to be all cheap ploys and hot chicks. With Make Stuff by Peter Gronquist (Portland) in the main space and Morgan Slade's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow in the project space, there is plenty spectacle to be had, but if you look just beyond it, you might actually get something out of the shows.

Fifty24SF opened Street Anatomy, a new solo show by Austrian artist Nychos a week ago last Friday night. He's been steadily filling our city with murals over the last year, with one downtown on Geary St. last summer, and new ones both in the Haight and in Oakland within the last few weeks, but it was really great to see his work up close and in such detail.

Congrats on our buddies at Needles and Pens on being open and rad for 11 years now. Mission Local did this little short video featuring Breezy giving a little heads up on what Needles and Pens is all about.

Matt Wagner recently emailed over some photos from The Hellion Gallery in Tokyo, who recently put together a show with AJ Fosik (Portland) called Beast From a Foreign Land. The gallery gave twelve of Fosik's sculptures to twelve Japanese artists (including Hiro Kurata who is currently showing in our group show Salt the Skies) to paint, burn, or build upon.

Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne played host to a huge group exhibition a couple of weeks back, with "Gold Blood, Magic Weirdos" Curated by Melbourne artist Sean Morris. Gold Blood brought together 25 talented painters, illustrators and comic artists from Australia, the US, Singapore, England, France and Spain - and marked the end of the Magic Weirdos trilogy, following shows in Perth in 2012 and London in 2013.

San Francisco based Fecal Pal Jeremy Fish opened his latest solo show Hunting Trophies at LA's Mark Moore Gallery last week to massive crowds and cabin walls lined with imagery pertaining to modern conquest and obsession.

Well, John Felix Arnold III is at it again. This time, he and Carolyn LeBourgios packed an entire show into the back of a Prius and drove across the country to install it at Superchief Gallery in NYC. I met with him last week as he told me about the trip over delicious burritos at Taqueria Cancun (which is right across the street from FFDG and serves what I think is the best burrito in the city) as the self proclaimed "Only overweight artist in the game" spilled all the details.

Ever Gold opened a new solo show by NYC based Henry Gunderson a couple Saturday nights ago and it was literally packed. So packed I couldn't actually see most of the art - but a big crowd doesn't seem like a problem. I got a good laugh at what I would call the 'cock climbing wall' as it was one of the few pieces I could see over the crowd. I haven't gotten a chance to go back and check it all out again, but I'm definitely going to as the paintings that I could get a peek at were really high quality and intruiguing. You should do the same.

The paintings in the show are each influenced by a musician, ranging from Freddy Mercury, to Madonna, to A Tribe Called Quest and they are so stylistically consistent with each musician's persona that they read as a cohesive body of work with incredible variation. If you told me they were each painted by a different person, I would not hesitate to believe you and it's really great to see a solo show with so much variety. The show is fun, poppy, very well done, and absolutely worth a look and maybe even a listen.

With rising rent in SF and knowing mostly other young artists without capitol, I desired a way to live rent free, have a space to do my craft, and get to see more of the world. Inspired by the many historical artists who have longed similar longings I discovered the beauty of artist residencies. Lilo runs Adhoc Collective in Vienna which not only has a fully equipped artists creative studio, but an indoor halfpipe, and private artist quarters. It was like a modern day castle or skate cathedral. It exists in almost a utopic state, totally free to those that apply and come with a real passion for both art and skateboarding

I just wanted to share with you a piece I recently finished which took me 4 years to complete. Titled "How To Lose Yourself Completely (The September Issue)", it consists of a copy of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine (the issue they made the documentary about) with all faces masked with a sharpie, and everything else entirely whited out. 840 pages of fun. -Bryan Schnelle

Jeremy Fish opens Hunting Trophies tonight, Saturday April 5th, at the Los Angeles based Mark Moore Gallery. The show features new work from Fish inside the "hunting lodge" where viewers climb inside the head of the hunter and explore the history of all the animals he's killed.

Beautiful piece entitled "The Albatross and the Shipping Container", Ink on Paper, Mounted to Panel, 47" Diameter, by San Francisco based Martin Machado now on display at FFDG. Stop in Saturday (1-6pm) to view the group show "Salt the Skies" now running through April 19th. 2277 Mission St. at 19th.

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to quit my job, move out of my house, leave everything and travel again. So on August 21, 2013 I pushed a canoe packed full of gear into the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, along with four of my best friends. Exactly 100 days later, I arrived at a marina near the Gulf of Mexico in a sailboat.

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